April 18, 2003
Crying in the Classroom
The classroom situation was not that unusual: A student, Matilda, was preparing to read her essay aloud to my expository-writing class. Describing her feelings toward her father, who had abandoned his family several years earlier and then died of brain cancer not long afterward, the essay was wrenching. Nor was the topic unusual, for many of my students wrote powerful expressions of grief or anger toward parents who had either died or disappeared as a result of divorce. As Matilda started to
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